I "believe" this is by design...kind of lame if you ask me. The keyboard will turn on for everything else (tap screen, press hardware buttons etc) but will not remain lit when you are USING IT??? Come on now. This device gives Spocks tricorder a run for its money. On another note I guess it makes since that it would be on during the day as well if they made it stay on while typing. The work around is option key + Screen light it will dim the display and leave the keyboard on. How much would one of those little photo lum sensors have been anyways??? Or maybe make it a setting you can customize.. I use a little program called mlights.

I think it makes plenty of sense. I wouldn't want it on all the time during the day... generally speaking you'll be using it less in the dark. So switching to "night mode" or whatever they call it (which leaves the keyboard backlighting on) seems to be quite logical and a nice feature. However, I agree that it would be best used if there was a setting to make it automatically occur after a certain time of day.

Originally posted by kamalot Why not have the camera check the available light level and turn on the keyboard if it is dark in the room?

Interesting idea but then it would be on all the time if it were in say, a holster or pocket.

I like the function - P method although I do wish HS picked a a more intuitive letter - like the N (for night time) or maybe the B (for backlight) or K (for keyboard) or even L (for light), but P? Sheesh.

I will give HS credit for at least screenprinting the backlight symbol on the actual key. And the P key is in a good location at the top right of the thumb board making it easy to find in the dark. Maybe there was a method to their madness?

Originally posted by kamalot Why not have the camera check the available light level and turn on the keyboard if it is dark in the room?

Well considering how well our T6 Cam works in low light I don't think I want it doing that. I mean if that were the case you might as well leave it on concidering how well it "senses" low light already. Well then again if the camera sensed all Blue (like the color of a low light pic) it would turn on the "blue" keyboard light.